The figure of 2.3 million which puts it at second place in our list includes active forces only - not civilian staff, like the US figure.

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Ms Blythman said the FSA compared very unfavourably to the Food Standards Authority Ireland (FSAI), which she said was "more pro-active" and unearthed the horsemeat contamination in the first place.

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Silicon Valley is now the world's most economically active place (surpassing a rueful Asia in mid-'97), and international flights into San Francisco and San Jose, the valley's "capital, " dump foreign deal-makers at record levels.

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Any number that deviates significantly from the non-farm payroll forecast is likely to produce very active trading in the market place.

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Many of the people outside the administration who have been most prominent in proposing this have been people like General Jack Keane, a recently retired general, and a lot of people who are active in Tal Afar, which is a place where the clear hold-and-build strategy actually worked.

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The big increase occurred even though copper was making neither multi-year lows nor highs, with the most active May contract remaining within the trading range in place since August.

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While those already in place should still work since existing keys will remain active, the developer forums are being set to read-only, no new keys are being issued and new partners are no longer being accepted.

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